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Rosemary Barton’s birthday party takes a turn for the worse when she imbibes cyanide instead of champagne. The verdict? Suicide. But why would a beautiful, wealthy woman kill herself, especially when so many of her guests — including her lover, her husband, and her own younger sister — have reasons to want her dead? When anonymous letters questioning the coroner’s verdict start turning up a year later, Rosemary’s husband decides to recreate the party and corner the killer. Unfortunately, the killer has other ideas.

Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary-in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously. No one present on that fateful night would ever forget the woman's face, contorted beyond recognition-or what they remembered about her astonishing life.